Short Story Unit Topics:

Author of Short Story: Biography, most important works, important themes/topics commonly treated by the author
Topical:
  • Cask Of Amontillado
    • Carnaval
    • Catacombs
  • Sound of Thunder
    • Is time travel possible?
    • Technology innovations of the future: Good or bad?- Cloning
    • Technology innovations of the future: Good or bad?- Drones
    • Technology innovations of the future: Good or bad? - other topics?
  • The Most Dangerous Game


  • If I Forget thee oh Earth ( Pair with Silent Springexcerpt in text book?)
    • Cause/effect environmental issues: Exxon Valdez
    • Cause/effect environmental issues: BP Gulf
    • The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
  • Rules of the Game
    • What is "endgame" in chess?
    • Describe Chinatown immigrant culture


Long Way Gone

  • Blood Diamonds
  • Civil War in Sierra Leone
  • RUF
  • Child Soldiers:Uganda
  • Child Soldiers: Phillipines
  • Child Soldiers: Colombia
  • Child Soldiers : Sri Lanka
  • Child Soldiers: ??
  • Hip hop music and social change
  • What is PTSD in children
  • PTSD and Rehabilitation
  • Who joins gangs and why do they join them
  • Emmanuel Jal: Somali ex Child Soldier now a hip hop artist
  • Genocide
  • KONY
  • Lord's Resistance Army

  • Kony
  • Lords Resistance
  • Musicicians working for social change